Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ceb8d795e488e2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.1 KB
MD5: bec7417f8acf0346be7caa5477a62a50 SHA-1: 1e086dc480747ddcb88363412192f7b66a77d3a2 SHA-256: 1ceb8d795e488e2b00f63d2f5c7ce969a6c8e10104bdf74d1727f410ccd32271
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact that triggers a critical heuristic for the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This indicates the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability for initial execution. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Heuristics 4

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains XFA image data with an inline crafted TIFF payload and shellcode/delivery markers. This is the data-bound variant of the CVE-2010-0188 Adobe Reader LibTIFF/XFA exploit shape.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
aca715b34b1861ea3dd8d1d79f52b412b590d4a1bf5be9a19da9780d447b6f22
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 12922 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).